Democracy and dictatorship in Europe: from the Ancien régime tothe present day First Edition Berman

Democracy and dictatorship in Europe: from the Ancien régime tothe present day 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780199373192,9780199373208,9780199373215,0199373191,0199373205,0199373213

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• ISBN-10: 0199373191
• ISBN-13: 9780199373208
• Author: Sheri Berman

At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time in history. But within a decade, this story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent’s newer democracies slid back towards dictatorship, while citizens in many of its older democracies began questioning democracy’s functioning and even its legitimacy. And of course it is not merely in Europe where democracy is under siege. Across the globe the immense optimism accompanying the post-Cold War democratic wave has been replaced by pessimism. Many new democracies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia began “backsliding,” while the Arab Spring quickly turned into the Arab winter. The victory of Donald Trump led many to wonder if it represented a threat to the future of liberal democracy in the United States. Indeed, it is increasingly common today for leaders, intellectuals, commentators and others to claim that rather than democracy, some form dictatorship or illiberal democracy is the wave of the future.

Table contents:

1. Questions about political development
2. The Ancien régime
3. English exceptionalism I
4. The French Revolution 1848
5. The French Third Republic
6. Italian unification
7. German unification
8. The struggle for democracy in interwar France
9. English exceptionalism II
10. The collapse of democracy and the rise of fascism in Italy
11. The collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of
12. National Socialism in Germany
13. Political development in Spain
14. The consolidation of democracy in Western Europe
15. The transition to communist dictatorships in East Centra
16. l EuropeThe transition to democracy in Spain
17. The transition to democracy in East-Central Europe
18. Lessons from Europe.

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